We didn't use parted in RHEL3, since we weren't supporting EFI/GPT.
With RHEL4, particularly on ia64, we need to support. So, we use the
nice libparted interfaces, like any other shared library. Note we're
not linking to a static library which seems prohibited. This is just
linking in to a shared library just like the ones in the example
above. Since our user binaries are all still 32-bit, we'd like the
32-bit libparted included somewhere on both x86_64 and ia64 so we can
use the same binary across all of them. Note that libparted is already
installed on all these archs, but x86_64 and ia64 include only the
64-bit version.

never mind. veritas is not going to use libparted. the fact that
it's licensed GPL rather than LGPL means we can't use it in our
(proprietary) commands.
sorry for the slow followup--it took a little awhile to get everyone
to understand that it was licensed GPL and thus not usable by non-GPL
code.
i would close this bug, but it's apparently blocking a couple of other
bugs that i can't look at so i don't know if they're depending on a fix
or not.